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2025 (12)

November (2)

github: GitHub Copilot policy now supports agent mode in the IDE

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub admins can now control access to Copilot’s agent mode in IDEs through the Copilot policies page on github.com. The change is intended to give organizations better governance over who can use agent mode in development environments.

github: Control AI spending with budget tracking for GitHub AI tools

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub announced budget-tracking controls for AI tools and the launch of two new premium request SKUs for the GitHub Copilot coding agent and GitHub Spark to help teams manage AI spending as usage grows.

October (10)

github: Deprecated models in GitHub Models

GitHub

2025-10-31

GitHub Models has deprecated several older models and asks users to transition to the suggested newer versions (for example, Mistral-Nemo users should move to Mistral-small-2503) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.

github: GitHub MCP Server now comes with server instructions, better tools, and more

GitHub

2025-10-29

GitHub's MCP Server release adds server instructions, improved tooling, and a smaller footprint to enable new and better ways for models to use the server.

github: Upcoming deprecation of CodeQL Action v3

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub released CodeQL Action v4 on October 7, 2025; v4 runs on the Node.js 24 runtime. CodeQL Action v3 will be deprecated at the same time as GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.19.

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code gets upgraded

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub announced upgrades to Copilot in Visual Studio Code (released to VS Code Insiders) at GitHub Universe 2025, including integration with OpenAI Codex for Copilot Pro+ users.

github: A mission control to assign, steer, and track Copilot coding agent tasks

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub redesigned the Copilot coding agent task management experience on github.com into a single “mission control” interface that lets you assign, steer, and track tasks without jumping between pages.

github: GitHub Code Quality in public preview

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub Code Quality is now available in public preview, bringing in‑context findings, one‑click Copilot fixes, and reliability and maintainability scores directly into pull requests to help improve code during review.

github: New public preview features in Copilot code review: AI reviews that see the full picture

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub announced new public preview features for Copilot code review that combine LLM detections and tool-calling with deterministic analyzers (for example ESLint and CodeQL) to produce smarter, more comprehensive reviews and enable a smooth handoff to the Copilot coding agent.

github: Work with Copilot coding agent in Slack

GitHub

2025-10-28

The GitHub app for Slack now integrates with the GitHub Copilot coding agent, enabling users to generate pull requests directly from Slack conversations. The feature is rolling out and announced on the GitHub Blog.

github: GitHub Copilot for Linear available in public preview

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub announced that Copilot for Linear is available in public preview. Users can assign Linear issues to the Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous, autonomous background agent — which will analyze the issue contents.

github: Enterprise AI controls & the agent control plane are in public preview

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub announced an enterprise-level experience for administrative functions for AI systems called the agent control plane, now available in public preview to all GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers using Copilot.